Research - Bora

Celebrating One Year of “People, Planet, Design”

11.22.24

Bora’s Director of Sustainability Corey Squire’s book “People, Planet, Design” celebrates its one-year anniversary! This powerful book reimagines sustainability in design,…

Why Electric Cars Won’t Save The World, But Electric Bikes Might

04.24.24

There’s a lot of discussion around electric cars right now, and their potential for addressing the climate crisis. Electrification is…

Miguel Hidalgo to Present on Lincoln High School’s Inclusive Dining Design

04.04.24

The new PPS Lincoln High School in Portland, OR, features a centralized, inclusive dining commons that transformed a socially segregated…

Engaged Learning at All Scales:
The OSU Learning Innovation Center

07.06.23

When the Learning Innovation Center (LINC) at Oregon State University was built in 2015, it upended traditional university lecture halls…

International Mass Timber Conference Insights

05.04.23

Kicking off a multipart series highlighting Bora’s mass timber efforts, we collected the major takeaways from staff who attended the…

Offsetting Our Carbon Footprint

04.04.23

Bora achieves 50% reduction in operational carbon emissions and has offset 100% of its carbon footprint since 2006.

Building to Meet the Moment: The Vision Behind Our New Studio

10.26.22

Architects have a unique relationship with the buildings they inhabit, as not every profession gets to occupy the outcome of…

Designing Healthy Buildings

06.08.22

For all the health advice out there, the scientific consensus is fairly settled on what constitutes a healthy diet: “Eat…

Lincoln High School is Tight!

06.01.22

Here at Bora, we’re celebrating the result of last week’s whole building airtightness test of Lincoln High School, which achieved…

Needs of the Future / Needs of the Present

10.22.21

We’re not going back to normal. That’s the major takeaway from the most recent report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel…

Energy Efficiency Through Airtight Design

08.25.21

In considering the sustainability of a building, airtightness is among the factors that can greatly impact energy efficiency and occupant…

Experiential Graphics Bring Texas A&M’s Traditions to Life in New Classroom Building

06.16.21

Located at the heart of campus, the Texas A&M Innovative Learning Classroom Building defines a new immersive experience that blurs…

Building Equity in Library Architecture

01.21.21

Building Equity in Library Architecture is a curious and important endeavor.The public library has long been a treasured community resource….

Designing with Healthy Materials: Research and Industry Implications

10.06.20

“Industry-wide transparency and optimization is vital to our ability as designers to improve human and environmental health through the individual…

Sustainable Design with Mass Timber: A Whitepaper

04.21.20

Mass timber structures are being considered more than ever for their aesthetics, flexibility in design, biophilic properties, and the goal…

Bora Principal Michael Tingley on transforming Lincoln Hall into one of Portland’s most popular Performing Arts venues

07.30.19

Long in dire need of deferred maintenance, Lincoln Hall was almost demolished in the early 2000s. However its important legacy…